NY Times, the Economist, the New Yorker. I have digital subscriptions to all of these.
I also listen to the Marketplace podcast, plus the Daily and Headlines NYT podcasts daily.
I listen to BBC Radio daily, mostly Radio 4 and 5 Live. The BBC Newscast and Americast podcasts as excellent.
NPR is in there occasionally. I also listen to WGN AM Chicago all day long. Mainstream news talk. None of the right wing stuff and mostly local programming.
You listen to BBC right off their website to get more!Originally Posted by Rogar
I fired up an old AM/FM radio last week to see what I could actually receive in the way of commercial broadcasts from my home, which is halfway up the side of the tallest mountain for 60 miles. (Indeed, the summit of the mountain has multiple transmitter towers that mostly provide the broadcast site for regional TV stations and emergency/government services. I'm one of the backup technicians for that site, as I can hike up there from here during bad storms).
Anyways, I hadn't listened to broadcast radio for years, and got tons of stations - lots from Canada, as I have line-of-sight to Vancouver and Victoria, and lots of down-sound stations.
So, I took a chance, and ordered the highest quality tabletop AM/FM radio I could find (Sangean HD-19), which also receives the new HD radio protocols, which I'd never played with.
TLDR: this is quite nice, and a pleasant change from doomscrolling. I have lots of long-form interview and news stations available, in particular.
I feel like my grandpa, kicking back and listening to the radio, while the fire crackles away and the storm howls outside.
It's really sort of great.
Bae, don't care about the booze, but that radio is awesome.
We were always a radio household but now I queue up audio podcasts if I’m working around the house or in the garden, don’t need no stinkin video.
The streaming Talking Heads pretty much sit at their desks and quack quack anyway so you get 90% of their content through audio.
this reminds me that so many of my favorite podcasts are now charging anywhere from $3.99 to $5.99 monthly to subscribe to their content. They still put out free episodes but us freeloaders don’t get the content until it is a couple days old. And now so many of their older episodes are accessible only through paid subscription.
They are overestimating how important they are in my life.
That's probably a lifetime supply of booze for me. I quite like good whiskey, but the whole household goes through a single bottle perhaps in four years. These are mostly gifts from houseguests. I bought the two bottles of Uncle Nearest for our book group, which read a wonderful book a few years ago, ""Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest." and I got the bottles for our discussion meetings on it.
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By coincidence that's a Stickley table under that cloth, from the 1930s or so.
Ah, but... that only works when the Internet is functioning :-)anyway, there are radio apps you can get that have numerous stations.
Personally I love the Ginko leaf cloth. We have all stickley quarter sawn oak furniture, some with Inlays. We started buying pieces about 40 years ago and they still look brand new. Also Tiffany style lamps. I even stenciled motifs around the top of our bathroom walls. Love the whole arts and crafts movement and we have visited numerous Frank Lloyd Wright houses around the country. Also Fiancé pottery.
anyway, there are radio apps you can get that have numerous stations.
That radio is awesome, and I think I just found my husband's next birthday present.
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